I’m in awe of the dedicated people that expend their lives trying to help in Africa. I sadly admit that if it were up to me, the continent would be cordoned off and ignored until it either got its act together, or became unpopulated from the disease, starvation, and warlords wiping each others tribes out.
Sub-Sahara Africa is where you talk about. North Africa (where my father served in WWII, then in Anzio) is Arab and Muslim. They ARE different than the sub-Saharan Africans.
Egypt is a MUCH visited place by world tourists. We went there twice when we lived in the KSA when we worked for ARAMCO. We loved Egypt.
However, what you say about sub-Sahara Africa rings true for me as well.